A conductive material dispersion includes a carbon-based conductive material, a main dispersant, an auxiliary dispersant, and a dispersion medium, wherein the main dispersant is a nitrile-based copolymer and the auxiliary dispersant is a copolymer including an oxyalkylene unit and at least one selected from the group consisting of a styrene unit and an alkylene unit.

A conductive material dispersion includes a carbon-based conductive material, a main dispersant, an auxiliary dispersant, and a dispersion medium, wherein the main dispersant is a nitrile-based copolymer and the auxiliary dispersant is a copolymer including an oxyalkylene unit and at least one selected from the group consisting of a styrene unit and an alkylene unit.

A slurry including at least a carbon black and a dispersion medium, wherein a concentration of the carbon black in the slurry is 5% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less, and wherein in a volume-based frequency distribution of particle size of the carbon black measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method, provided that a volume concentration of carbon black with a particle size of 0.6 μm or more is x (%), a volume concentration of carbon black with a particle size of 0.3 μm or more and less than 0.6 μm is y (%), and a volume concentration of carbon black having a particle size of less than 0.3 μm is 100−(x+y) (%), the slurry satisfies 10≤x≤70, 30≤y≤90, and 0≤100−(x+y)≤30.

A slurry including at least a carbon black and a dispersion medium, wherein a concentration of the carbon black in the slurry is 5% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less, and wherein in a volume-based frequency distribution of particle size of the carbon black measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method, provided that a volume concentration of carbon black with a particle size of 0.6 μm or more is x (%), a volume concentration of carbon black with a particle size of 0.3 μm or more and less than 0.6 μm is y (%), and a volume concentration of carbon black having a particle size of less than 0.3 μm is 100−(x+y) (%), the slurry satisfies 10≤x≤70, 30≤y≤90, and 0≤100−(x+y)≤30.

A copper oxide coated pigment including a particle having an outer surface, and a layer of copper oxide on the outer surface. The pigment has a reflectivity of electromagnetic radiation in a visible spectrum less than or equal to 5%, and a reflectivity of electromagnetic radiation in a near-IR and LiDAR spectrum greater than or equal to 5%. The particle is cobalt oxide or carbon black. A method for forming copper oxide coated particles includes combining a precipitating agent with a solution of copper nitrate and particles, forming coated particles. The particles are cobalt oxide or carbon black. Washing the particles, obtaining washed coated particles, and filtering the washed coated particles, obtaining filtered coated particles. Drying the filtered coated particles, obtaining dried coated particles, and calcining the dried coated particles to form the copper oxide coated particles.

An object is to improve the dispersion stability and discharge stability, while also improving the image quality and various resistance properties of printed matters even when the cohesion promoter contained in the primer ink is small in quantity. As a means to achieve the object, an ink set is provided that comprises: an aqueous inkjet ink composition containing (a) a pigment, (b) a water-soluble organic solvent, (c) water, and (d) a resin emulsion, wherein the pigment (a) has a crosslinked resin layer on its surface; and a primer ink composition containing a cohesion promoter that promotes cohesion of the aforementioned ink composition.

An object is to improve the dispersion stability and discharge stability, while also improving the image quality and various resistance properties of printed matters even when the cohesion promoter contained in the primer ink is small in quantity. As a means to achieve the object, an ink set is provided that comprises: an aqueous inkjet ink composition containing (a) a pigment, (b) a water-soluble organic solvent, (c) water, and (d) a resin emulsion, wherein the pigment (a) has a crosslinked resin layer on its surface; and a primer ink composition containing a cohesion promoter that promotes cohesion of the aforementioned ink composition.

The present invention relates to a method which uses non-core-shell polymer particles to form polymer film on a pre-formed solid substrate surface, said non-core-shell polymer particles comprising two covalently coupled polymer regions of different molecular composition, wherein (a) one of the two polymer regions is a crosslinked RAFT polymer region and the other polymer region is a film forming polymer region, (b) the crosslinked RAFT polymer region comprising particle aggregation prevention means selected from one or more of charged and steric stabilising functionality, and (c) the film forming polymer region comprising 0-3 wt. % of charged polymerised monomer residues relative to the total amount of polymerised monomer residues present in that region.

A composite polymer composition comprising partially crystallized carbon black. The composition exhibits superior thermal transfer properties in plastic formulations. The polymer precursor exhibits excellent rheology when compared to similar compositions comprising traditional carbon blacks. The composite polymers provide for higher loading of more thermally conductive carbon blacks in a variety of composite polymer compositions.

A printing assembly for thermal transfer printing is disclosed. The assembly comprises at least one first printing system comprising a transfer member having an imaging surface on the front side, a coating station at which a monolayer of thermoplastic particles is applied to the imaging surface, an imaging station at which electromagnetic radiation (EM) is applied, optionally via the rear side of the transfer member, to selected regions of the imaging surface to render the particles coating the selected regions tacky, a transfer station at which only the regions of the particles coating that have been rendered tacky are transferred to a substrate to form an adhesive image; and at least one more downstream printing system. The transfer member includes on its front side an EM radiation absorbing layer, the imaging surface being formed on, or as part of, the absorbing layer, and on its rear side a body which can optionally be transparent to EM radiation.